lambkill

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. See sheep laurel.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Kalmia angustifolia, a toxic plant with small, deep pink flowers.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A small American ericaceous shrub (Kalmia angustifolia), resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers; -- called also calfkill, sheepkill, sheep laurel, etc. It is supposed to poison young sheep and other animals that eat it at times when the snow is deep and they cannot find other food.

Examples

Through what some would consider rough woods and bleak pasture land, in a little sheep-track, crooked and sometimes steep, over her hung like a white cloud the wild thorn tree, large golddusted cymes of viburnums, rose-blooming lambkill, and other sorts, suggested all she knew, and more than she knew, of the Gardens of Princes.